Senior Manager People Projects Western Europe

Job title:

Senior Manager People Projects Western Europe

Company:

P&O Ferries

Job description

Job Description:The Sr. Manager HR Projects Western Europe is a strategic People leader responsible for delivering high-impact People projects across the cluster (Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal). This role acts as a senior consultant, driving business integrations, supporting acquisitions, and enhancing leadership and talent capabilities across different levels of the organization. The focus is on working with cluster business leaders, local people teams, and regional people expertise on delivering pragmatic solutions while ensuring high stakeholder satisfaction and timely project closure. This individual will spearhead complex people projects, aiming to set up sustainable frameworks that allow for seamless handovers once projects are completed, freeing them up for new strategic initiatives. You will deputize the Vice President People in meetings where he cannot be present.How you will contribute

• Lead strategic people initiatives, particularly around business acquisitions and integrations, ensuring alignment with DP World’s business objectives.
• Act as a senior people consultant, providing expert advice and solutions while maintaining a hands-on approach to project execution.
• Drive project lifecycles from conception to completion, ensuring high satisfaction from all stakeholders and timely delivery.
• Implement people frameworks that can be sustained post-project handover.
• Collaborate with regional people teams and business leaders to identify needs and deliver tailored people solutions.
• Serve as the primary people contact for smaller countries, offering guidance on complex people issues.
• Build and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.

Other responsibilities

• Responsible for the management and leadership of an engaged team, promoting collaboration and ensuring that each is developed and evaluated against goals and objectives which are aligned, specific, measurable, attainable yet challenging, realistic and time bound.
• Always act as an ambassador for DP World when working; promoting and demonstrating positive behaviors in harmony with DP World’s Principles, values and culture; ensuring the highest level of safety is applied in all activities; understanding and following DP World’s Code of Conduct and Ethics policies.

What you will bring

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in human resources, business administration, or related field.
• 10+ years in senior people related role, preferably in an international business environment.
• Consultancy experience, able to set strategy and define clear goals and implementation plans.
• Strong capabilities in analytics, dashboarding, and application of project management tools.
• Strong presentation and project leadership skills in more complex business settings.
• Proven experience working across multiple countries with diverse legal and cultural environments.
• Direct involvement in business acquisition processes, business integrations, cultural integration, and benefits + process alignment.
• Passion for talent identification, succession management, and learning tools.
• Experience in logistics, and ideally including “blue-collar” engagement.

Skills

• Strong communication skills – You are an exceptional listener. You communicate clearly. You write exceptionally well, and you speak eloquently. You can explain just about anything to anyone. You’re comfortable on the phone or to groups of people – at any level. You are incredibly tactful when delivering the facts.
• Problem solving – You enjoy solving problems. Getting to the root cause. You love taking on difficult challenges and finding creative, innovative solutions. You don’t get flustered easily. If you don’t know the answer, you’ll dig until you find it.
• Detail oriented – You pay strong attention to the details as it is one of your core qualities. As far as you are concerned, anything worth doing is worth doing right, every single time. You stay focused and nothing falls through the cracks on your watch.
• Exceptional critical thinking skills – You can identify gaps in logic and underlying causes of issues; You think on your feet. You like learning new things, and you can learn quickly.
• Strong collaborator – You can work independently because you self-manage, with limited direction and guidance, but you also enjoy collaborating across dynamic and multi-cultural teams and are personable, helpful and incredibly organized.
• Results oriented – You are proactive in handling competing priorities and meet your deadlines and commitments; you always demonstrate a “can do” positive attitude.

Expected salary

Location

Nederland

Job date

Sat, 22 Feb 2025 23:43:18 GMT

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